Language contact
Bridging the gap between individual interactions and areal patterns
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Beschreibung
Contact linguistics is the overarching term for a highly diversified field with branches that connect to such widely divergent areas as historical linguistics, typology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and grammatical theory. Because of this diversification, there is a risk of fragmentation and lack of interaction between the different subbranches of contact linguistics. Nevertheless, the different approaches share the general goal of accounting for the results of interacting linguistic systems. This common goal opens up possibilities for active communication, cooperation, and coordination between the different branches of contact linguistics. This book, therefore, explores the extent to which contact linguistics can be viewed as a coherent field, and whether the advances achieved in a particular subfield can be translated to others. In this way our aim is to encourage a boundary-free discussion between different types of specialists of contact linguistics, and to stimulate cross-pollination between them.
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Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt
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Fax: +49 40 - 53 43 35-84
E-Mail buchhandel@bod.de
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Rik van GIjn
Rik van Gijn studied general linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen and subsequently held positions at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen and the University of Zurich. Currently he is assistant professor at Leiden University. His interests focus on the description and comparison of the indigenous languages of South America, and on bringing together different disciplines to help uncover the population history of the continent, in particular with respect to historical contact.
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